One Thing That Helped Me In Life Is Like Realizing That Everybody Else Gets Away With Being Ugly. Everybody

the intimacy of sharing feelings and thoughts that were buried deep inside with someone who understands and listens to them patiently and acknowledges them and does not make you feel like you're too much is everything

2024 1. Desire is information from the future 2. Anxiety is not a product of fear alone, but is employed to defend against any negative feeling 3. Feeling is the only resolution 4. Anger is surprisingly enjoyable 5. All truthful communication is inappropriate by some standard 6. Voice notes are speech therapy 7. Instagram is embarrassing because the medium is the message 8. Love must not be conflated with attachment 9. True power is antithetical to control 10. Conflict is a gift 11. Eye contact is singular and sacred 12. Fantasies of love are just mechanisms through which I am taught to love myself enough to try

you can absolutely read Frankenstein as a horror novel about the fear of parenthood, at something that you labored over nearly to death being born hideous, being born at all, being something you did not intend on creating, on it not being what you meant to create, on having something that learns from someone other than yourself, something that has its own thoughts and desires and life beyond you, and it is so, so, so vital to Victor's character that he does not, in fact, ever give his creation a name.

Oubaitori (n.) — the idea that people, like flowers, bloom in their own time and follow their own individual journeys; the acceptance of not comparing oneself to others, and focusing on one's own uniqueness.